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Posted 07 July 2018 - 06:02 AM

So, I am still figuring out everything I need to do in order to run the game.

Start date will either be July 16th or 23rd.

I may not have full access from August 10-15 (going to a cousin's wedding and to visit the family), so the game may be mostly paused during that time, but otherwise, as long as I can figure everything out, I will start the game on one of the above dates and run it.

If you wanna play, say something!

1. D'rek
2. Gnaw
3. Morgoth
4. Khellendros
5. IH
6. Tapper
7. Twelve
8. Lady Bliss
9. Tattersail





Order of race selection:


- Khellendros - Saar (B HW)
- Lady Bliss - Mentak (A HW)
- D'rek - L1z1x (D HW)
- IH - Creuss (H HW)
- Morgoth - Arborec (I HW)
- Gnaw - Xxcha (G HW)
- Tattersail - Hacan (E HW)
- Twelve - Winnu (F HW)
- Tapper - Sol (C HW)


You can find all the race sheets HERE!


Map Tile Placements:




1 - Lodor
2 - TuraNora
3 - Nebula
4 - Blank
5 - Asteroid Field
6 - Blank
7 - Gravity Rift
8 - Herrah
9 - Nevant
10 - Arnor-Lor
11 - Mansa III
12 - Beta Wormhole
13 - Arinam Meer
14 - Ensapta
15 - Bereg/Lirta
16 - Blank
17 - Supernova
18 - Grallon
19 - Wei
20 - Tarix
21 - Tequ'ran/Torkan
22 - Supernova
23 - Gwynan
24 - Asteroid Field
25 - Abyz/Fria
26 - Blank
27 - Blank
28 - Everra
29 - Daemon
30 - Alpha Wormhole
31 - Lodd Eru
32 - Quazi
33 - Quecenn Rarron
34 - Mellon/Zohbat
35 - Corneeq
36 - Xull
37 - Supernova
38 - Vefut
39 - Starpoint/New Albion
40 - Lazar/Sakulag
41 - Thebe
42 - Sauder
43 - Zej Rajja
44 - Dal Bootha
45 - Silvano

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This post has been edited by Galactic Council: 12 July 2018 - 06:35 PM
Reason for edit: TESTING

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Posted 07 July 2018 - 06:03 AM

Hi!

TESTING

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I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 07 July 2018 - 06:05 AM

Player boards for all races.

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Posted 07 July 2018 - 06:09 AM

I should note that I will randomize the player list once we start. So the order in which people sign up will not control the order of strategy card choices. Once it has been randomized once, though, that will be the order for the rest of the game.
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Posted 07 July 2018 - 06:41 AM

View PostBlend, on 07 July 2018 - 06:09 AM, said:

I should note that I will randomize the player list once we start. So the order in which people sign up will not control the order of strategy card choices. Once it has been randomized once, though, that will be the order for the rest of the game.


??? No moving speaker??
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Posted 07 July 2018 - 06:59 AM

I’m in!
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Posted 07 July 2018 - 08:01 AM

Something!
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Posted 07 July 2018 - 08:53 AM

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Posted 07 July 2018 - 12:52 PM

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Posted 07 July 2018 - 02:06 PM

You can count on me to play again.
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Posted 07 July 2018 - 04:37 PM

Some game setup ideas to consider:

Drafting & building the map -- check out the official rules have the map built, where hexes are randomly dealt to players and players take turn placing them. Some common variants of the homeworld placement with this are {a} player order and homeworld locations are assigned right from the start, {b} homeworld locations are assigned from the start, but which player gets which is randomized after, {c} players can place their homeworld as one of their tiles, anywhere within their assigned "pie slice", {d} players can place their homeworld anywhere as one of their tiles.

Age of Empire -- all ten public objectives are available from the start of the game.

Number of VP -- Official rule is 10 for a short game or 14 for the long game. We played to 11 in the first game (short game plus 1 extra since it takes a little bit longer to get into the swing of things).

View Postworrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 08 July 2018 - 10:28 PM

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Posted 08 July 2018 - 10:35 PM

Alright, so long as BK is IN, IN, that's our nine players! :)
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Posted 08 July 2018 - 10:37 PM

Though I suppose if anyone else wants to join, please say so. I'll add you as an alternate in case someone has to bow out, or potentially pair you up with someone else if they'd like (I'm thinking Lady B and BK here as neither have played before, or at least haven't played on this forum).
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Posted 08 July 2018 - 10:56 PM

Alright, that means we have space for at least one more player!
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Posted 09 July 2018 - 06:04 AM

View PostBlend, on 08 July 2018 - 10:56 PM, said:

Alright, that means we have space for at least one more player!

I would have expected Tatts to be bouncing around enthusiastically already...
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Posted 09 July 2018 - 06:29 AM

View PostTapper, on 09 July 2018 - 06:04 AM, said:

View PostBlend, on 08 July 2018 - 10:56 PM, said:

Alright, that means we have space for at least one more player!

I would have expected Tatts to be bouncing around enthusiastically already...


If the start is on 23rd and nobody else wants it I'll play

But I'll step down for Tatts or anyone who'd want to play, even after spectating the whole last game (admiteddly not paying close enough attention to the technical details of game thread) it all still seems entirely too complicated

Pairing didn't really work out for me last time as I left my co-consul to the job part of our job and kept all of the drugs & party part to myself (sorry Gnaw!), but I'm definitely willing to pair up with Bliss if she feels like it, there're still *some* aspects that I did understand
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Posted 09 July 2018 - 06:38 AM

just so you guys are aware, I'll be heading to Indonesia and friday and will stay there for three weeks. There's plenty of wifi and all, but as you may well imagine I'll be less active than I normally would be.
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Posted 09 July 2018 - 02:03 PM

I'm in if there's room. Just got back from holiday.
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Posted 09 July 2018 - 02:30 PM

There, that's our 9 players!

I'll be getting stuff ready this evening.

I figure the way we'll do race choices is by initiative order. So I'll randomize the signup list, and that will be our "around the table order" that's used for strategy card selection throughout the game.

Then, the first person in that order will get to choose their race and starting position on the map. Then the next person will get to do so, and so on and so forth.

We will then build the map. I have, at home, a map with all NUMBERED blank hexes (except Mecatol and Mallice) on which we will build. Each player will receive a link to a Google Drive folder with the hexes assigned to them (most have 5, 3 people will have 6) and will take turns placing hexes by following the numbers (i.e. first person will put a hex on 1, second on 2, and so on and so forth). Hex placement will be done in the above order, but the way it works is that we go from player 1 to player 9, then we go from player 9 to player 1, then back again. (Hope that makes sense).

I'm gonna try to get the basics of the game and chatty threads up, or mostly up, today so that we can get started on that admin stuff tonight, and hopefully have a map built and ready to go for a Monday start!
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I'm just going to have to come to terms with the fact that self-vote suiciding will forever be referred to as "pulling a JPK" now, aren't I? ~ JPK
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